Season One Program Guide

Take a rare look into one of China's most treasured commodities—acrobatics. CIRCUS SCHOOL reveals the rigorous physical training students must endure as they prepare for a national competition. Learn more>>

Armed with the celebrated Shaolin training of body and mind made popular in kungfu movies, five Zen Buddhist monks set out to make new lives teaching their craft in unlikely parts of America. Learn more>>

One of Japan's most time-honored and insular traditions, sumo wrestling offers an earthshaking window into the cultural collision of East and West, as worldwide interest grows and increasing numbers of foreigners rise to the top professional ranks. Learn more>>

An examination of the growing plague of sex slavery, THE DAY MY GOD DIED weaves footage from Bombay brothels with stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade. Learn more>>

This eye-opening documentary traces how secondhand clothing donated as charity in the western world, eventually lands in Zambia, Africa, and how the communities that trade and resell these clothes remain in poverty. Learn more>>

Russian nationalism percolates in a castle outside Moscow, where Mikhail Morozov—who longs for a return to the glory days of Old Russia—rules autonomously over young initiates, laying the groundwork for a rapidly growing right-wing movement. Learn more>>

A young mother living in Iowa discovers she is a survivor of one of the most egregious massacres in Guatemala's 36-year civil war, forcing her to confront her identity and the truth about her past.Learn more>>

A Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are joyously reunited after 22 years, but their illusions are quickly shattered when the reality of cultural differences and years of separation sets in.Learn more>>

A LION'S TRAIL celebrates the timeless power of Africa's most famous song, "Mbube" — inspiration for the pop classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" — written by an illiterate Zulu musician who barely received pennies for his efforts.Learn more>>

A polite Italian travel agent and an authoritarian Moroccan immigrant, two very different men from two different cultures, try to manage a diverse group of people traveling from Italy to Morocco.
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Before leaving America for Tanzania, where he has lived in exile for over 30 years and struggled to reconcile his past with his future, Pete O'Neal founded the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panthers.Learn more>>

Torture training at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation (formerly the U.S. Army School of the Americas) and the extraordinary life of Father Roy Bourgeois, the daring activist leading the campaign to close down the School.Learn more>>

When a spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh's revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi for a high school exchange program in rural Mississippi, her ideas about freedom, America, Vietnam and herself are thrown into question.Learn more>>